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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.52%20retrospective%20-%20rustdoc%20diffs%3F/near/237485636" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> simulacrum <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.2E52.20retrospective.20-.20rustdoc.20diffs.3F.html#237485636">(May 05 2021 at 12:22)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="232545">Joshua Nelson</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.2E52.20retrospective/near/237485304">said</a>:</p>
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<li>Install tidy on the release machines so you get a diff when rustdoc tests fail. That would have narrowed down that the failure was from a channel-specific change.</li>
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<p>Are you saying we don't print diffs without an extra tool? Tidy might get you better diffs, but surely we can still print <em>something</em>?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.52%20retrospective%20-%20rustdoc%20diffs%3F/near/237487226" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.2E52.20retrospective.20-.20rustdoc.20diffs.3F.html#237487226">(May 05 2021 at 12:35)</a>:</h4>
<p>the diffs are useless without tidy, they're thousands of columns long</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.52%20retrospective%20-%20rustdoc%20diffs%3F/near/237487258" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.2E52.20retrospective.20-.20rustdoc.20diffs.3F.html#237487258">(May 05 2021 at 12:36)</a>:</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83228/">https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83228/</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.52%20retrospective%20-%20rustdoc%20diffs%3F/near/237487532" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/241545-t-release/topic/1.2E52.20retrospective.20-.20rustdoc.20diffs.3F.html#237487532">(May 05 2021 at 12:38)</a>:</h4>
<p>it should be pretty easy to install on linux at least. One builder should be enough since rustdoc itself is target-independent.</p>



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